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Recent SELECT MEDIA projects

Select Media creates
artefacts and documentations of evolving media arts and countercultural
currents. Our special interests are contemporary media and cultures
on the margins.

Select
is the sister entity to Lumpen Media Group and we produce media arts
festivals and events mostly in Chicago.

We create
magazines and DVDS that are released at events and given away to participants.
Then we sell and/or distribute the rest of our print runs to stores
and groups worldwide.

Video
Samizdat

Select
Video Samizdat is the name of our DVD distribution project. Its a program
where we distribute our compilation DVDs containing tactical media documentaries,
social change videos, reports from the streets and culture jamming initiatives
to activists, artists and creative resisters across the country.

The DVDS contain a selection of works by radical cultural workers and
experimental video makers critiquing various coercive forces and systems.
Using desktop editing techniques mixed with humorous direction many
of these makers appropriate work, divert and re-edit it as a way to
register their dissent or to create something surreal. Described as
tactical mediaticians, culture jammers, troublemakers, media activists
and humorists, these makers create works that are a sampling of the
digital video underground that is impacting our cultures during a time
of global crisis.

Themes covered in these compilations include anti-war messages, community
organizing, education on globalisation issues, para-politics and documentation
of creative artist and activist practices.

We
travel with programs on demand abroad and encourage dissemination of
our media products as widely as possible. Select releases publications,
DVDS and CDs in conjunction with events and festivals that we produce.
We see the accompanying products as distribution channels for radical
creators' works. Some of the videos are avaialble for viewing in the
Lumpen online video section,

This is a special Version>02 digital arts convergence issue containing
critical texts on the issues surrounding the ideas of a digital commons.
It features works and interviews with artists participating at Version>02.
It comes with Select Media's first DVD containing over two hours of
videos presented during version>02. pdfs of some texts are available
here: http://www.versionfest.org/festival/printversion.html

From the introduction: Chicago is the best city in Amerika. If
you havent figured it out yet, you will soon.This issue celebrates
the hidden genius and emergent forces that are at work in certain sectors
of our citys underground cultural economy. There is such a plethora
of amazing work and activity going on in this city that we tried an
experiment. The curaturial process of this issue was made by word of
mouth invitation.Our editorial choices were made through chance encounters
on the streets with friends and aquaintances who said they were up to
something. This situationist approach reaped great rewards. The result
is works by forty or so artists and musicians we encountered in the
span of a month. Some were found at that cafe down the block from you
or at a gas station on Division St. Were not kidding. So, here
is what is happening now. Its fantastic.

Select #4 Audio Track Listing:
1: Lay Across by nontourist
2: Scrimpin on Trim by hot tub gary video ape
3: Arsim by craque
4: Secret Agent by spectralina
5: I have lost 115 lbs, I have gaint 115 lbs by kleenex girl wonder
6: Likkle Barf by a grape dope
7: Beat Me Up by douggpound
8: I am energy by TRS-80
9: This Beat is Acid by dj rad and housemaster bert
10: Pick a City, Any City by al burian
11: And it Turns by heavy petting
12: ETAGE 3 / FLUR by radian
13: Ambulette by String Theory
14: Counting OFF AGAIN by twine
15 : war porn tv protest music by postfix-e
16 : First Fill Then Filter by teleseen

This special issue was an artefact released during the DEC 2002 Select
Media Festival (SMF) which took place over 4 days in December 2002.
The SMF
audio visual arts festival featured works by over 100 makers, 300 films
& videos and 25 performances. The magazine features interviews with
creators and makers that were featured at the festival. Contaisn the
incredible GI joe PSAs

Issue #6 of Select magazine is a companion reader for the festival we
co-produce with the Mueum of Contemporary Art, Version>03 [DigitalArtsConvergence]:
Technotopia vs. Technopocalypse ( http://versionfest.com)
.This year we examined two forceful trends, Globalization (the merging
of economies) and Singularity (the adaptation of man to machine), as
seen, created, and debated by programmers, artists, scientists, activists
and critical thinkers. This year's edtion includes the festival schedule
and critical texts from particpants. Select #6 DVD is the companion
video artefact to the Version>03 convergence. It features tactical
media documentaries, weird videos and resistance media jamming. Like
all Select DVDs we consider the Select #6 video compilation a portable
video festival and distribution format that we encourage you to share
with as many people as possible. Please screen it, dub it and pass it
on.

Select #6.66 also comes with a Special bonus double CD
The Lumptronic 6 Technotopia vs Technopocalypse CD project is a companion
audio artefact for the festival. It contains work by some of the performers
and musicians featured at the Version>03 convergence and also features
a sampling of the digital underground in Chicago.

All magazines
may be purchased In CHiCAGO at Quimbys,
Una Mae's Freak Boutique, Penelope's, Prairie Ave. ookstore and Reckless
records. Just ask for them at the counter.

If you want to order anything direct from us, email ed
and we can talk. Or mail a description of what you want with the amount
it costs and mail a check to "Edmar Productions" to Select
Media, 960 W 31st St. Chicago Il 60608.